There Is Only One Abrahamic Faith

There is only Abrahamic Faith, and that is Christianity—which is Catholicism. Remember that the Jews who reject Christ do claim, “Abraham is our father.” (John 8:39.) But Jesus immediately denies this assertion by saying: If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, but now you seek to kill Me, a Man Who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. You are doing the works your father did…You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires.—John 8:39-41, 44. Notice again that Christ Himself in Jn 8 says that the Jews who reject Him have not Abraham as their father, but rather have the devil as their father. Those are His words, not mine.

The Holy Spirit wrote through the Apostle Paul to the early Christian converts from Judaism (who were tempted to return to Judaism) the following: There is indeed a setting aside of the former commandment, because of the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law brought nothing to perfection, but a bringing in of a better hope, by which we draw nigh to God.—Heb 7:18. This means the Old Testament, albeit an excellent foreshadowing of the New Testament, is totally annulled. The first Greek word in Heb 7:18 is Ἀθέτησις (Athetisis) which Strong’s dictionary defines as nullification, abrogation and cancellation. Notice the New Testament inerrantly describes the Old Testament as abrogated or cancelled. Why then are so many neo-con non-trad Catholics obsessed with the old-rituals found in Judaism? Probably because they trashed their own ancient rites in favor of rites written by Protestants and freemasons. But we traditional Catholics (who do indeed have very ancient rites) are rarely tempted to go to things like a Seder meal (which is prohibited, by the way.)

The Council of Florence infallibly states “that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament of the Mosaic law…although they were suited to the divine worship at that time after our Lord’s coming had been signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began.” Later, the Council of Trent speaks “of the abrogation of the Mosaic Law.” Much later, Pope Pius XII (who saved over 860,000 Jews from the holocaust) wrote “The New Testament took the place of the Old Law which had been abolished…but on the gibbet of His death Jesus made void the Law with its decrees fastened the handwriting of the Old Testament to the Cross.”—Mystici Corporis, #29.

Islam definitely can not be considered an Abrahamic Faith, for their “holy book” commands men to rape little children. Any book commanding men to rape children must be inspired by Satan, and this is what is asserted in the Koran (or Qur’an.) As Gerald Charles Wilson writes, “The Quran (23:6 and 70:30) draw a distinction between spouses and ‘those whom one’s right hands possess’ (ie ‘slavegirls’) while clarifying that sexual intercourse with either is permissible… Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi explains that ‘two categories of women have been excluded from the general command of guarding the private parts: (a) wives, (b) women who are legally in one’s possession.’ So if you buy the girl, she is yours.” This is confirmed in the Koran itself: “And successful are the believers who guard their chastity…except from their wives or those that their right hands possess.” (Quran 23:6.) “And those who guard their private parts: except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed.” (Quran 70:29-30.) Those “your right hand possesses” are slave-children. Note well that Mohammed’s favorite wife “Aisha” he kidnapped at age six, but he waited until she was nine years old to begin regularly raping her. None of this violence is based in on our holy father Abraham (a saint in the Roman Martyrology) but a rather an inspiration from Satan himself.

As I wrote in the first sentence of this blog post, there is only one Abrahamic Faith, and that is Christianity—which is Catholicism. But Vatican News itself now declares, Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi to Open in 2022. That Vatican News link says, “The cultural landmark in the UAE capital, which includes a synagogue, a church and a mosque, is meant to be a beacon of understanding and peaceful coexistence, inspired by the Document on Human Fraternity.” It later boasts: “The Abrahamic Family House derives its name from the Old Testament biblical figure, Abraham, who is recognized and greatly revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims.”

There is only one true Faith in AD 2022 that comes from Abraham, and that is Catholicism. As embarrassing as this incongruity between ancient Church history and modern Church history is, it does not change the Catholic Church’s history or Magisterium outlined in the first half of this blog post. We traditional Catholics also can not deny this open apostasy that is happening before our eyes. We must admit such construction in Abu-Dhabi is a deconstruction of everything contained in Divine Revelation from Christ Himself in John 8 to Hebrews 7 to the Council of Florence to Pope Pius XII to even the violent and bloody history of Islam itself. No, I as a Catholic do not worship the same “god” as Muslims do. Therefore, we must accept the obvious reality of open-apostasy in our own hierarchy, as painful as it is. We must follow the faith (and history) wherever it takes us, regardless of personal cost. And therefore we must admit there is no longer a hermeneutic of continuity, only a hermeneutic of rupture.

In 1542 the papal Inquisition was re-established to combat Protestantism, eventually becoming an organ of papal government. I guess Protestants don't count as Christians to him

No, TradCaths do not, and which is consistent with many papal and concilar statements, such as,

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos: Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors. Did not the ancestors of those who are now entangled in the errors of Photius [the eastern “Orthodox “schismatics] and the reformers, obey the Bishop of Rome, the chief shepherd of souls?...Let none delude himself with obstinate wrangling. For life and salvation are here concerned...” Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, PTC:873) The Promotion of True Religious Unity), 11, Encyclical promulgated on January 6, 1928, #11; http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19280106_mortalium-animos_en.html (More: https://peacebyjesus.net/eens.html)

Yet distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly God-inspired, substantive, authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels)

Meanwhile, though Luther was wrong in his frustrated denunciation of Jews, the Office of the Inquisition much had Jews in their sights.

In The Popes Against the Jews : The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism, historian David Kertzer notes,

“the legislation enacted in the 1930s by the Nazis in their Nuremberg Laws and by the Italian Fascists with their racial laws—which stripped the Jews of their rights as citizens—was modeled on measures that the [Roman Catholic] Church itself had enforced for as long as it was in a position to do so” (9).

In 1466, in festivities sponsored by Pope Paul II, Jews were made to race naked through the streets of the city. A particularly evocative later account describes them: “Races were run on each of the eight days of the Carnival by horses, asses and buffaloes, old men, lads, children, and Jews. Before they were to run, the Jews were richly fed, so as to make the race more difficult for them, and at the same time, more amusing for the spectators. They ran from the Arch of Domitian to the Church of St. Mark at the end of the Corso at full tilt, amid Rome’s taunting shrieks of encouragement and peals of laughter, while the Holy Father stood upon a richly ornamented balcony and laughed heartily. Two centuries later, these practices, now deemed indecorous and unbefitting the dignity of the Holy City, were stopped by Clement IX. In their place the Pope assessed a heavy tax on the Jews to help pay the costs of the city’s Carnival celebrations.

But various other Carnival rites continued. For many years the rabbis of the ghetto were forced to wear clownish outfits and march through the streets to the jeers of the crow, pelted by a variety of missiles. Such rites were not peculiar to Rome. In Pisa in the eighteenth century, for example, it was customary each year, as part of Carnival, for students to chase after the fattest Jew in the city, capture him, weigh him, and then make him give them his weight in sugar-coated almonds.

In 1779, Pius VI resurrected some of the Carnival rites that had been neglected in recent years. Most prominent among them was the feudal rite of homage, in which ghetto officials, made to wear special clothes, stood before an unruly mob in a crowded piazza, making an offering to Rome’s governors.

It was this practice that occasioned the formal plea from the ghetto to Pope Gregory XVI in 1836. The Jews argued that such rites should be abandoned, and cited previous popes who had ordered them halted. They asked that, in his mercy, the Pope now do the same. On November 5, the Pope met with his secretary of state to discuss the plea. A note on the secretary of state’s copy of the petition, along with his signature, records the Pope’s decision: “It is not opportune to make any innovation.” The annual rites continued.

“When all is said and done, the [Roman Catholic] Church’s claim of lack of responsibility for the kind of anti-Semitism that made the Holocaust possible comes down to this: The Roman Catholic Church never called for, or sanctioned, the mass murder of the Jews. Yes, the Jews should be stripped of their rights as equal citizens. Yes, they should be kept from contact with the rest of society. But Christian Charity and Christian theology forbade good Christians to round them up and murder them.” See more in part 5 of a series (1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5, 6 .

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